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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatin on Saturday fired a monsignor who me out as gay on the eve of a big meetg of the world's bishops to discs church outreach to gays, divorce and more tradnal Catholic fai. The Vatin took actn after Krzysztof Charamsa, a mid-level official s doctre office, me out newspaper terviews Italy and Poland sayg he was happy and proud to be a gay prit, and that he was love wh a man whom he intified as his boyiend. "The cisn to make such a poted statement on the eve of the openg of the synod appears very ser and irrponsible, sce aims to subject the synod assembly to undue media prsure," the Vatin spokman, the Rev. Feri Lombardi, said a statement. As a rult, Charamsa uld no longer work at the Vatin or s pontifil universi, he said. Dpe his dismissal, Charamsa remas a prit, although Lombardi hted that his superrs uld take further actn. Charamsa, 43, ially planned a prs nference ont of the Vatin's Congregatn for the Doctre of Fah's office, but moved to central Rome after the Vatin actn. He was joed by his pann, intified only as Eduard. Charamsa told reporters that the timg of his disclosure was not related to the bishops meetg on the fay, but said he hoped might add "a Christian voice" to the synod that is expected to addrs how the Church n better mister to the homosexual fahful. "I me out. This is a very personal, difficult and tough cisn the Catholic church's homophobic world," Charamsa said, and asked people to bear this md. He said he has wrten a book Italian and Polish to "lay bare" his experience " ont of all those who want to nont me." Charamsa told the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza that he was motivated to make his sexual orientatn public by hate mail that he received after publicly cricizg a right-wg Polish prit who is strongly anti-gay the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny. "I have to say who I am. I am a gay prit. I am a happy and proud gay prit," he told Gazeta Wyborcza. ___ Vansa Gera Warsaw and Colleen Barry Milan ntributed. ___ This story has been rrected to show the rrect spellg of the prit's first name is Krzysztof, not Kryzstof.

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VATIN FIR GAY PRIT WHO CAME OUT BEFORE GLOBAL MEETG

The Vatin took actn after Krzysztof Charamsa, a mid-level official s doctre office, me out sayg he was proud to be a gay prit. * vatican fires gay priest *

VATICAN CITY — The Vatin on Saturday fired a monsignor who me out as gay on the eve of a big meetg of the world's bishops to discs church outreach to gays, divorce and more tradnal Catholic Vatin took actn after Krzysztof Charamsa, a mid-level official s doctre office, me out newspaper terviews Italy and Poland sayg he was happy and proud to be a gay prit, and that he was love wh a man whom he intified as his boyiend. Charamsa told reporters that the timg of his disclosure was not related to the bishops meetg on the fay, but said he hoped might add "a Christian voice" to the synod that is expected to addrs how the Church n better mister to the homosexual fahful. This is a very personal, difficult and though cisn the Catholic church's homophobic world, " Charamsa said, and asked people to bear this md.

Charamsa told the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza that he was motivated to make his sexual orientatn public by hate mail that he received after publicly cricizg a right-wg Polish prit who is strongly anti-gay the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny.

VATIN FIR PRIT AFTER HE ANNOUNC HE'S GAY

Monsignor out on eve of meetg of world's Catholic bishops to discs church outreach to gays, divorce, more tradnal fai * vatican fires gay priest *

The Vatin dismissed a prit after he told a newspaper he's gay, that he's a relatnship and then lled for a change the Catholic Church's stance on homosexualy. VATICAN CITY -- The Vatin on Saturday fired a monsignor who me out as gay on the eve of a big meetg of the world's bishops to discs church outreach to gays, divorce and more tradnal Catholic Vatin took actn after Krzysztof Charamsa, a mid-level official s doctre office, me out newspaper terviews Italy and Poland sayg he was happy and proud to be a gay prit, and that he was love wh a man whom he intified as his boyiend. Krzysztof Charamsa, who works for a Vatin office, giv a prs nference wh his partner Eduard to reveal his homosexualy Oct.

VATIN FIR PRIT AFTER HE OUT AS GAY

The Vatin dismissed a prit om his post a Holy See office on Saturday after he told a newspaper he was gay and urged the Catholic Church to change s stance on homosexualy. * vatican fires gay priest *

This is a very personal, difficult and tough cisn the Catholic Church's homophobic world, " Charamsa said, and asked people to bear this said he has wrten a book Italian and Polish to "lay bare" his experience " ont of all those who want to nont me. "Charamsa told the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza that he was motivated to make his sexual orientatn public by hate mail that he received after publicly cricizg a right-wg Polish prit who is strongly anti-gay the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny. WorldThe Vatin dismissed a prit om his post a Holy See office on Saturday after he told a newspaper he was gay and urged the Catholic Church to change s stance on homosexualy.

VATIN FIR PRIT AFTER HE COM OUT AS GAY AHEAD OF BISHOPS' MEETG

The Vatin on Saturday fired a monsignor who me out as gay on the eve of a big meetg of the world's bishops to discs church outreach to gays, divorce and more tradnal Catholic fai. * vatican fires gay priest *

Monsignor Krzystof Charamsa says he knew he would have to give up prithoodFather Krysztof Olaf Charamsa, left, pos wh his partner Edouard after tellg reporters Rome that he's gay.

(Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Imag)The Vatin dismissed a prit om his post a Holy See office on Saturday after he told a newspaper he was gay and urged the Catholic Church to change s stance on homosexualy. Monsignor Krzystof Charamsa was removed om his posn at the Congregatn of the Doctre of the Fah, the Vatin's doctral arm where he had worked sce 2003, a statement Francis says he won't judge gays5 ways Pope Francis has fed his own path Charamsa, 43, and a Polish theologian, announced he was gay and had a partner a long terview wh Italy's Corriere lla Sera newspaper on later held a news nference wh his partner, a Spanish man, and gay activists at a Rome rtrant.

"But said givg the terview and the planned monstratn was "grave and irrponsible" given their timg on the eve of a synod of bishops who will discs fay issu, cludg how to reach out to gays.

VATIN FIR GAY PRIT OM HIS POST ON EVE OF SYNOD

The Vatin on Saturday fired a monsignor who me out as gay on the eve of a big meetg of the world's bishops to discs church outreach to gays, divorce and more tradnal Catholic fai. * vatican fires gay priest *

'Undue media prsure' cedIt said his actns would subject the synod, which Pope Francis is due to open on Sunday, to "undue media prsure" issue of homosexualy and the Church has domated the aftermath of the Pope's vis to the Uned Stat last 's 'Who am I to judge? ' ment on gays gets big reactnPope Francis vows to hold clergy acuntable for sex abe sIn Saturday's terview, Charamsa said his partner had helped him e to terms wh his sexualy and knew he would have to give up the prithood, although the Vatin statement ma no reference to this oute. "It's time for the Church to open s ey about gay Catholics and to unrstand that the solutn propos to them — total abstence om a life of love — is human, " he was quoted as prit out at Vatin, is immediately firedMonsignor Krzysztof Charamsa is llg on the Vatin to publicly change s stance on homosexualyThe Catholic Church teach that homosexualy is not a s but that homosexual acts Vatin has been embarrassed by ntroversy over the pope's meetg wh Kim Davis, a Kentucky unty clerk who went to jail September for refg to honour a U.

VATIN FIR GAY PRIT ON EVE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS MEETG

Krzysztof Charamsa, a 43-year-old prit employed at the Holy See, lost his job after he admted to Italian and Polish newspapers that he was gay and a relatnship. * vatican fires gay priest *

Supreme Court lg and issue same-sex marriage Vatin said on Friday that "the only real dience" the pope had durg his vis to Washgton was wh a small group that clud a gay uple.

The Vatin on Saturday fired Charamsa who me out as gay on the eve of a big meetg of the world's bishops to discs church outreach to gays, divorce and more tradnal Catholic fai. Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa, a 43-year-old Polish prit who revealed his homosexualy, and a same-sex relatnship on the eve of gatherg of bishops om around the world, has been stripped of his doctral rponsibili for what the Vatin says are "very ser and irrponsible" actns. The 14th Ordary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Fay, a meetg of the world's bishops to discs church outreach to gays, divorce and more tradnal Catholic fai.

VATIN FIR PRIT WHO CAME OUT AS GAY ON EVE OF WORLDWI BISHOPS MEETG

Move follows terviews which Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa said he was proud to be a gay prit * vatican fires gay priest *

In an terview published the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza on Saturday, and later at a news nference wh his partner, Charamsa lled the Church's attu on homosexualy "backwards" and said he was "happy and proud" to be gay. At the news nference, Charamsa said he wanted to make "an enormo noise for the good of the Church" and apply "good Christian prsure" on the Synod not to fet homosexual believers, acrdg to Rters.

"This cisn of me to e out was a very personal one taken a Catholic Church that is homophobic and very difficult and harsh (towards gays), " he said. Gazeta Wyborcza that he was motivated to make his sexual orientatn public by hate mail that he received after publicly cricizg a right-wg Polish prit who is strongly anti-gay the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny.

Father Krysztof Olaf Charamsa, who works for a Vatin office, giv a prs nference to reveal his homosexualy, on October 3, 2015 Rome. VATICAN CITY — The Vatin has fired a proment prit who announced he’s gay and a relatnship. (Alsandra Taranto / Associated Prs) Reportg om Vatin Cy — The Vatin on Saturday fired a monsignor who me out as gay on the eve of a big meetg of the world’s bishops to discs church outreach to gays, divorce and more tradnal Catholic Vatin took actn after Krzysztof Charamsa, a mid-level official s doctre office, me out newspaper terviews Italy and Poland sayg he was happy and proud to be a gay prit, and that he was love wh a man whom he intified as his boyiend.

VATIN FIR POLISH PRIT AFTER HE COM OUT AS GAY TO REPORTERS

Some nservative Catholics are blamg clergy sex abe on gay prits, cg "homosexual works" the church. The argument reflects wir cultural and polil nflict Catholic circl. * vatican fires gay priest *

Charamsa told reporters that the timg of his disclosure was not related to the bishops’ meetg on the fay, but said he hoped might add “a Christian voice” to the synod that is expected to addrs how the church n better mister to the homosexual fahful. This is a very personal, difficult and tough cisn the Catholic Church’s homophobic world, ” Charamsa said, and asked people to bear this said he has wrten a book Italian and Polish to “lay bare” his experience “ ont of all those who want to nont me. ”Charamsa told the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza that he was motivated to make his sexual orientatn public by hate mail that he received after publicly cricizg a right-wg Polish prit who is strongly anti-gay the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny.

Was wh gay ex-stunt, not Kim DavisMigrant crisis playg to the hands of Germany’s extremists28 Amerins aboard ship missg off Bahamas after hurrine Mt-read stori om the L. The Vatin fired a prit Saturday after he me out as gay and revealed he has a boyiend on the eve of an important meetg of the world's bishops to discs church teachgs on fay life, a topic that enpass divorce, homosexualy and habatn. Consired a high-rankg Vatin official, Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa, 43, lived Rome for the last 17 years and worked at the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah sce several terviews, Charamsa said he was happy and proud to be a gay prit, and was love wh a man whom he intified as his boyiend, acrdg to the Associated Prs.

He said he wanted to challenge the church's "backwards" attu to homosexualy, the BBC reported. "It's time the church opened s ey and realized that offerg gay believers total abstence om a life of love is human, " he said, acrdg to the work.

VATIN FIR GAY PRIT ON EVE OF SYNOD

* vatican fires gay priest *

Charamsa also said he knew he would have to give up his mistry but felt he had a duty toward sexual mori to e out, BBC addn to Davis, pope met wh gay uple WashgtonThe Vatin reacted quickly by firg him and cricizg the timg of his revelatns.

Intense jockeyg on gay issu preces next week's Catholic synod meetgIn the 1960s, followg the reforms of the historic Send Vatin Council (1962-1965), Pope Pl VI tablished a synod system so that bishops om around the world uld meet every few years and ntue to foster a more llegial, llaborative and horizontal form of church was signed to rce the centralizatn of power the Roman Curia, the papal burecracy, and allow put om bishops wh pastoral experienc om different untri. The stat of gay Catholics is among the most fiercely rt for a weary pope: Back Rome, Francis fac a bigger tt than U.

AS CATHOLIC SEX ABE CRISIS DEEPENS, CONSERVATIVE CIRCL BLAME GAY PRITS

The Vatin on Saturday fired a monsignor who me out as gay on the eve of a big meetg of the world's bishops to discs church outreach to gays, divorce and more tradnal Catholic fai. * vatican fires gay priest *

"This is a very personal, difficult and tough cisn the Catholic church's homophobic world.

VATICAN CITY (CBS/AP) -- The Vatin on Saturday fired a monsignor who me out as gay on the eve of a big meetg of the world's bishops to discs church outreach to gays, divorce and more tradnal Catholic fai.

VATIN FIR GAY PRIT ON EVE OF SYNOD

The Vatin took actn after Krzysztof Charamsa, a mid-level official s doctre office, me out newspaper terviews Italy and Poland sayg he was happy and proud to be a gay prit, and that he was love wh a man whom he intified as his boyiend. This is a very personal, difficult and tough cisn the Catholic church's homophobic world, " Charamsa said, and asked people to bear this md.

WorldMove follows terviews which Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa said he was proud to be a gay pritAssociated PrsUpdated Oct.

VATIN FIR GAY PRIT ON EVE OF BISHOPS’ MEETG

Charamsa n no longer work at the Vatin or s pontifil universi after he me out as gay on the eve of the synod. Photo: Associated PrsVATICAN CITY—The Vatin on Saturday fired a monsignor who me out as gay on the eve of a big meetg of the world’s bishops to discs church outreach to gays, divorce and more tradnal Catholic fai.

‘I AM A GAY PRIT WHO IS HAPPY’: VATIN OFFICIAL IS FIRED AFTER G OUT ON EVE OF CHURCH NFERENCE ON FAY

Some of the pope's adversari the church, such as Cardal Raymond Burke, have another explanatn: Gay prits are to blame, they say. Most abe cints, Burke told an terviewer last month, nsist of "homosexual acts mted wh adolcent young men.

" "It seems clear light of the recent terrible sndals, " Burke said, "that ed there is a homosexual culture, not only among the clergy but even wh the hierarchy, which needs to be purified at the root. Conflatg homosexualy and sexual abe Bishop Robert Morlo of Madison, Wisns, wrg to Catholics his dce last month, noted that the recent cints of clergy abe volved "viant sexual — almost exclively homosexual — acts by clerics.

" "It is time to adm, " Morlo wrote, "that there is a homosexual subculture wh the hierarchy of the Catholic Church that is wreakg great vastatn the veyard of the Lord. " When terviewed later about his letter on the Catholic televisn work EWTN, Morlo was asked what he would say to those Catholics who read his ments as blamg homosexualy for the problems the church. But the argument ntu, wh some Catholic lears and proment theologians even sayg the abe crisis jtifi a purge of gay men om the prithood.

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